The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.